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by maegul 4y ago
Yes that makes sense! Thanks!
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by maegul 4y ago
Terrorist’s long game I guess … just become the damn pilot.
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by maegul 4y ago
Oh my! I’d heard ActivityPub was chatty but haven’t looked into the details. This, if true, sounds … not good. Anyone with expertise here who can speak to the scaling of ActivityPub?
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by maegul 4y ago
I agree but think both are true at the same time. The reality, from what I’ve gleaned, is that the instance you’re on matters (for many), but you can’t come to appreciate that and what you want in an instance without first being on some ins
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by maegul 4y ago
Agree. I suspect that this is the short/medium term application for this tech. One basic but effective demonstration I’ve seen was summarising a 30 minute talk on YouTube into dot points.[1] I watched the video and read the summary aft
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by maegul 4y ago
Agreed. Whenever I return to this story I’m always astounded at rereading that part of the story (even though I know it’s coming). I’m also surprised it isn’t given more weighting. Surely it’s the biggest reddest flag in all the evidence an
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by maegul 4y ago
I feel like the need for qualified pilots is essentially that it’d be easier to identify what isn’t effectively a “kill everyone” button in the cockpit if used in the wrong way. It’s a fricken giant metal tube flying through the air!
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by maegul 4y ago
Agree. I’m regularly surprised at how disappointed I am when I visit the site given how popular or how high its profile is. So often it’s content is some combination of boring, repetitive or uninspired.
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by maegul 4y ago
Apologies! I got that from some blog post somewhere I believe, not from any personal wackereren our judgement (which I should have signalled better in my post). Nonetheless, would reading a parquet file with polars be faster than reading a
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by maegul 4y ago
Isn't the low hanging fruit that polars picked: "how about lazy evaluation to allow the query to be optimised?" ... which is mostly anathema to the design of pandas?
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by maegul 4y ago
This is the weird thing that's happening right now, and maybe it's not a good thing. Any pipelines that have been built from the daraframe onward (datavis libraries being the big ones) have been based on pandas (or rather its Dat
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by maegul 4y ago
My understanding is that polars can get fast(er) parsing mainly/only by leveraging arrow and parquet files.
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by maegul 4y ago
I recall needing/wanting to clone only a specific folder from a repo and the best solution being to use SVN. I'm pretty sure I used that trick a few times and even shared it a couple of times. Don't know if it's possibl
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by maegul 4y ago
I mean, this tracks with the experience of anyone who has gone citation/source tracking ... soooo much stuff is just not substantiated, and it's honestly really bad because it turns the mere existence of a citation into some sort
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by maegul 4y ago
Generally I agree, but I think the malleability of neural tissue leads pretty easily to the conclusion that the embodiment of consciousness you're describing relates to our current form of consciousness and not consciousness generall
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by maegul 4y ago
Personally, I’m warming up to the idea that consciousness and biology are naturally divergent phenomena and that it is to be expected that consciousness attempts to free itself of its biological substrate in pursuit of an existence more con
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by maegul 4y ago
I totally hear you. The interesting thing about this moment in AI, it seems, it’s not how good the AIs are, but how bad the lower end of human work and ability is relative to the AI. In this case, how much SEO-farm rubbish content has been
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by maegul 4y ago
All true I think. Interesting thing is how many researchers read just the abstract of papers. I’d say it’s quite common to read just the abstract and some future captions, and only dig into details on a few papers.
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by maegul 4y ago
Agree. I’m guilty of descending to hyperbole at times! Nonetheless, while I agree with your pushback, I do wonder how much utility there is in the “dogma” approach. There’s a lot of “facts” being thrown around in education, from what I’ve s
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by maegul 4y ago
So much this! There’s surely a huge argument that all of scientific education is a massive disservice. The point should be to learn and appreciate the method or process of scientific investigation of uncertain and mysterious or hard to unde
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by maegul 4y ago
Apparently around 500 Karma you get a downvote button.
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by maegul 4y ago
Perhaps a bit too scandalous (I don't know), but my understanding is that there was also a falling out of sorts between the DragonFly lead and BSD people, largely caused by allegedly abusive behaviour form the DragonFly lead while they
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by maegul 4y ago
So I think the ColorHelper plug-in[1] is a better example of the modern gui hack in sublime. Basically goes all in on the HTML engine (for popup windows) that ships with sublime. I haven’t used it myself (HTML), but as far as I understand,
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by maegul 4y ago
Sublime has, I think, a relatively loyal user base that have gotten comfortable there and don’t really have much of a reason to leave unless for a big IDE for specific projects. The plug-in ecosystem, while clearly aged, still has activity
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by maegul 4y ago
This. It’s a quirk of iPhone I suppose. But I’m always forgetting about it so probably not great UX.
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by maegul 4y ago
Putting aside the need for an audience, I think the whole personal wiki or Zettelkasten thing helps with writing for yourself as the process becomes about building up your network of thoughts, then browsing it, writing back into it, … etc.
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by maegul 4y ago
Generally, this indicates that digital collaborative "whiteboards" are becoming a common thing, and I for one think that it's about time our UX paradigms properly allowed us to work outside of slides and documents.
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by maegul 4y ago
Fair. Like I said, it’s a text editor and only does things so much “better” than their competitors who are likely to retain their user bases to some extent. We seem to generally agree on this. But the ecosystem effects of GitHub integration
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by maegul 4y ago
This. We need to remember this if we’re to use VS Code and any of their LSPs.
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by maegul 4y ago
Seeing recently Onivim 2 die and Brackets too (I don’t know much about that project, but it was Adobe backed FWIW) reminds me that these things can come and go. Getting people to become users and getting plug-in authors to invest their time

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